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You know how a lot of people say they would love to contribute to Free Software but can't code? No more! Become a KDE Booth Buddy and help out at ScaLE!
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You know how a lot of people say they would love to contribute to Free Software but can't code? No more! Become a KDE Booth Buddy and help out at ScaLE!
This is @druonysus and he needs help managing the KDE booth at Scale 21x.
https://floss.social/@druonysus@mstdn.io/111887967308318720
If you are located in or visiting the Los Angeles area on the days of the event, DM Drew so you can just turn up and help!
You don’t need to code to help FOSS! Things a non-coder can do:
Translating can also be a huge help and often times there are very intuitive web interfaces for this
Weblate is great, you can translate strings of text during 5 minute breaks
Hey, can you link a couple of these projects with web interface translation methods, or something similar and convenient? Having used a bunch of open software through centralized platforms or local files, I mostly encounter either inline, manual file change as translation option or adjacent strings files, but sadly no visualization or even context of where a line to be translated is used, etc.
Asking because I'm not really one to go through personal connections to devs or taking active parts in community discords to submit translations in text file formats. I'd like to see these other ones with semi-anonymously submitting translations for my select languages, and a couple examples for for convenience would help a lot for me to seek or ask for such things in the future.
Sure thing.
The best place to start is on the Get Involved page on out wiki. There you can read about the different ways you can help and contains all the links you may need.
The second best place would probably be just jumping right in into the New Contributors Matrix room and having a chat with the people there.
So I'm what one might call a basic user. Mainly browser based tasks. I can use the terminal, but I don't have really much of anything memorized. Imagine giving a desktop running Fedora to your great aunt, not that one, the other one, who's constantly smoking and sexually harasses the busboys when they come to clean away the ashtrays. That one. That's my level of Linux proficiency.
Are any of these things I might be able to do? I would genuinely love to help, but I use FOSS for philosophical reasons, not because I understand the techy stuff. If it's doable at my level (or an achievable level), I'm eager.
So why are you sexually harassing busboys?
It's a hobby more than an anything else.
Read this, see if there is anything that you would like to help with.